Head of Finance

Broster Buchanan; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days annual leave

Pension contributions

Life assurance

Wellbeing days

Volunteering time

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Leeds Community Foundation is recruiting a Head of Finance for a senior, strategic finance role based in Leeds with hybrid working. The post is 28 hours per week and sits on the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for budgeting, reporting and treasury across four entities.

You will shape strategy, manage governance, and lead a small team, contributing to social impact across Leeds and Bradford. The role blends hands-on finance work with leadership and partnership across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with real depth in financial leadership.
• Experience in charity finance and fund accounting or credibility to operate in the sector from day one.
• Ability to translate complex numbers into clear, actionable advice for non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and long-term financial planning across four entities.
• Own management accounts, statutory accounts and external audit, and fund accounting.
• Provide reporting and assurance to boards, finance committees and the Treasurer, ensuring robust controls and risk management.
• Oversee investment and treasury arrangements with external managers and banks.
• Embrace technology to streamline processes and support transformation initiatives.
• Lead, support and develop the finance team to foster a collaborative culture.

Skills

Financial leadership

Strategic thinking

Board reporting

People leadership

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

Job description

• Part Time - 28 hours per week
• Hybrid working Mondays based in Offices in Central Leeds
• £50,000-£55,000 FTE which equates to £40,000 - £44,000 Pro Rata for the 28 hours

LEEDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVEBRADFORD
Head of Finance £50,000-£55,000 FTE 28 hours a week, working pattern to be agreed Leeds, with hybrid working
Permanent Mondays in our Leeds office the rest of your week worked flexibly

A senior finance role that not only gives a good work-life balance, but a compelling reason to care about the numbers.
Many Head of Finance roles demand five days and give you spreadsheets and deadlines. This one asks for the equivalent of four, sits you on our Senior Leadership Team, and puts your finance skills to work for real social purpose across hundreds of community organisations in Leeds and Bradford. If you've reached the point in your career where your time and making a positive difference to the world matter as much as your title, keep reading.

Who we are

We're Leeds Community Foundation, and together with GiveBradford we've spent the last twenty years connecting people and businesses who want to give with the communities and causes that need it most. Since 2005 we've helped donors invest more than £72 million back into our region, funding the grassroots organisations that are, quite simply, the backbone of these two cities.

We do that across four related charities: Leeds Community Foundation itself, GiveBradford, the Old Fire Station community hub in Gipton, and the BG Campbell Trust Fund. Four sets of accounts, four boards, one finance team and a real need for someone to deliver order, insight and confidence across all of it.

The role

You'll be our number one in finance, the person the Chief Executive, the trustees and the leadership team turn to for a clear, honest view of where we stand financially. It's a genuine leadership role, but it's also hands-on: with a full- time Finance Manager and Finance Officer to lead, you'll know when to train and delegate and when to roll your sleeves up where it counts.
Day to day, and across the year, you'll be the person who:

• Leads budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and long-term financial planning across all four entities, and helps the leadership team make sound decisions with the full picture in front of them;
• Owns the quality and timeliness of our management accounts, statutory accounts and external audit, and the fund accounting that sits at the heart of what a community foundation does;
• Gives our boards, the finance and investment subcommittee and our Treasurer the reporting and assurance they need, and keeps our controls, compliance and risk management genuinely robust;
• Leads our investment and treasury arrangements, working with our investment managers, advisers and banks;
• Embraces technology to help us continually improve how we work, simplifying and automating alongside our Digital & Data Lead as part of a live transformation programme;
• Leads, supports and develops the finance team, building a collaborative and improvement-minded culture.

Who we're hoping to meet

You're a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with real depth in financial leadership. You'll be someone who's equally comfortable shaping strategy and getting into the detail when it's needed. You know charity finance and fund accounting well, or you're close enough to it that you can be credible in the sector from day one.

Just as importantly, you can turn complicated numbers into plain, useful advice for people who don't live in finance, and you've the confidence to offer constructive challenge to senior colleagues and trustees when it matters.

If you've worked across multiple entities, overseen investments or treasury, or led a finance system improvement before, so much the better, but none of these is a dealbreaker. What is important is that you have the professional judgement to be our finance lead, and a genuine alignment with our values what we're here to deliver across the community.

What's in it for you

Beyond a role with real purpose we offer a package we're proud of:

• £50,000-£55,000 FTE which equates to £40,000 - £44,000 Pro Rata for the 28 hours per week
• Hybrid working, with Mondays in our central Leeds office and the rest from home or wherever you work best
• 25 days' annual leave, rising with service, plus statutory days and your birthday off
• 5% employer pension contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
• Group life assurance paying twice your annual salary
• Two wellbeing days and 14 hours of volunteering time a year, taken when you need them
• Discretionary leave over Christmas and New Year, and a faith-based bank holiday swap scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme, including access to counselling and legal and financial advice
• A genuine commitment to your personal development and training
• Regular full-team away days
• An internal wellbeing initiative and access to mental health first aiders

How we work

Monday is our one fixed day together in the Leeds office, the rest of your hours are yours to shape around your life. We actively encourage our team, finance included, to spend time out in the community, at places like the Old Fire Station, seeing exactly where the money goes and why it matters.

Closing date: Sunday 27 September 2026.

Leeds Community Foundation is committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and we're happy to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process - just let Lucy know.